Last night I left home because of a woman I have been helping, a widow after 29 years of marriage, who turned 83 on the 8th of this month… and who is being evicted from her home of 30 years by her stepchildren, because of a living trust that does not recognize her rights as an elderly widow in a marriage of long duration.

They have already taken away much of her property including two cars, pots and pans, jewelry, and an expensive vacuum cleaner that she had bought. The biggest problem at 83, though, is that you have made connections for 30 years in a community, and taking you away from them is akin to a death sentence.

The stepson in particular had turned off her water right after he was served with a restraining order granting her the sole possession of the house, on the 9th of April, a day when he demanded that I be arrested as an agitator… Last night he threatened me with a civil suit because of my “meddling.”

The laws of men and of God say that you shall take care of the widows and the orphans, but we are living in a time when the first law is that of endless greed, greed for greed’s sake, the golden calf in Exodus being the graven image of that obsession and addiction to money and possessions. I remember the Golden Calf of Occupy that was so like the Wall Street icon…

So last night we were dealing with an alarm system that could not be turned off, and three police officers who became seven or eight cops eventually, and one of the stepsons and his wife, trying to get us to leave the house, and making fun of the widow, flashing pictures and the wife even dancing around and cheering and telling her in her face, almost face-to-face, that God was watching, which I in turn repeated to the mocking woman, that God was indeed watching. And the widow who has become my mother and my friend, sobbing bitterly in a small wooden chair in a corner, as we hugged her and held hands and called upon Justice.

There were suggestions that I take her home with me, but it was important to state that this was her house and that we were going nowhere. And in the end everyone left, it was after 9 p.m. and a kindly neighbor who had stayed with us during the whole ordeal invited us to her home, nearby, for spaghetti and chilaquiles. And we came back and we prayed and talked until long after midnight. She spoke to my 3rd son, Berniecrat Alessandro from Bayonne, New Jersey, and told him she is changing her status to Democrat to vote for Bernie (from Republican!) because she thought if we were for Bernie she had to be too…

But I slept on a small mattress on the floor of the house, after a rosary and other prayers with her, watching her sob at her age because of cruelty. All laws of man and God say, Take care of the widows and the orphans. With Bernie at the helm, we will be able to do that, because Greed will no longer be the guiding principle of this country.